The temperature on August 19, 1877 was about 18.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
Day of marriage May 17, 1901
The temperature on May 17, 1901 was between 6.9 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). Source: KNMI
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death January 12, 1968
The temperature on January 12, 1968 was between -15.6 °C and -4.2 °C and averaged -8.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
August 20 » Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
September 2 » Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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